ICI Edition
Episodes
Mary S. Morgan: Model Narratives
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mary S. Morgan: Model Narratives
Poetics and Politics in Slow Cinema
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This event will engage with the debates surrounding Slow cinema as both an aesthetic movement and a political intervention. The discussion will focus ...
Ben Nichols: What Is a ‘Single-axis Analysis’?
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of ‘intersectionality’ has completely transformed a wide range of disciplines over the last few decades. From literary study to sociol...
Elisabeth Strowick: Ambiguity of Scale. Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain — an Anthropocene Novel?
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is obsessed with questions of scale. Whether in its incessant reflection on days, weeks, months, years, minutes, or...
Joanna Masó: Instituting Care - Psychotherapy and Materialism
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between social and mental alienation? How can one envision care and cure practices that counter the homogenizing policies of ...
Daniel S. Brooks: Scale Ranges - The Variety of Matter’s Forms, and Levels of Organization as Local Maxima
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Originally applied to preserve a materialist worldview that extends beyond physics and chemistry, the notion of levels of organization is one of the m...
Gibson Ncube: The Filmed Body as a Model of Understanding African Queer Lived Experiences
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Africa, a combination of cultural and religious practices, repressive laws instituted during the colonial period, and homophobic nationalisms have ...
Teresa Fankhänel: Analog World-modelling. Anticipating a Post-war World Through Architectural Models
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Full video: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/teresa-fankhaenel/ Theodore Conrad was an architect and master craftsman. His miniatures of Plexiglas a...
Maggie Nelson: The Forms Things Want to Come As
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rather than take up the literary world’s on and off obsession with classifications and genre demarcations, this talk will center on the relationship...